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Improve performance graphs by enabling display of portfolios
The old system (VV US) enabled the member to run a portfolio, perhaps based on a strategy, and then display the performance on the performance graphs. This enabled the member to inspect performance (and relative performance) of strategies during certain stages of the market cycles. For example, we hear 2013 was the best year since 1996. So, what strategy did best from 1996-Spring 1998 before the sell-off? This would be very useful and used to be a feature of the old system.
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Replicate old system (VV US) whereby backtesting can be marched forward one day at a time.
In the old system, one could create a portfolio on a certain date and then march it forward one day at a time with one click. This was a wonderful educative tool and enabled the member to observe the behavior of the portfolio vis a vis the broad market and other factors. This is a big confidence builder in using the more aggressive and successful but highly volatile strategies. (Think bottom fishing strategies).
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Auto Tester Override Stop Criteria for Positions Opened in Different Situation
When using Auto tester, add a new feature called Override Stop (in addition to Buy Long, Cash, No Action). This feature would allow a strategy to override Stop Criteria during that signal phase. For example, if the Up phase Buy Long used a Stop of VST < 1.0, the strategy could change to VST < 1.1 during a Neutral Phase. If the signal phase goes back to Up, the Stops for those positions returns to VST < 1.0.
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Add a "Views" function to allow us to see our portfolio performance over different time periods
Every year, I have to creatively create a new portfolio with my current holdings as "purchased" at the beginning of the year so that I may see how my YTD performance is going. It would be much better if I could maintain a single portfolio and just change the time period I am interested in - like YTD - and get the performance metrics, transaction reports, etc. for that time period. At a minimum, simply seeing the chart for my time period and performance from the open of the beginning of that time period based on my purchase history since…
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Backtest test name field could be longer
I'm finding the name field for each back test to be too short (at 50 characters). That probably seems like a good number of characters but when trying to organize my tests (which accumulate quite fast even without auto tester) I find I'm running out of characters.
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Backtester stop criteria doesn't include ProTrader options.
I just got your ProTrader Add On and so far in my back testing I'm not able to simulate the way I really try to trade. That is, if I buy on a MACD and DPO crossover I might want to stop out of the position on some combination of these ProTrader signals. Is there anything in the works or the pipeline to add such a feature to the Back Tester?
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1. "deleted" Portfolio temporary file for recovery
Put "deleted" portfolios into a temporary "recently deleted" file that can be recovered if necessary.
I lost years of data that may never be replicated because I accidentally hit the delete button. It would be great if i could recover it like a deleted e-mail.1 vote -
I was hoping that the new Sure Fire portfolio's would be started as of this year. Would it be possible to have them as well?
I would just like to see the portfolio's started as of the new year, this way we would be able to follow and should get closely matching results. I would like to see both the new and the back tested portfolio's. Perhaps a yearly accounting as you do with some of the other portfolio's; close the year out and start a new year, this would help both new users and long term users alike.
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Transcripts for Seminars
Make available transcripts of seminars for those who have hearing impairment. Also, you could add closed captions for the seminars.
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Add a New Stop Loss Criteria Alert by % from Purchase Price
Allow a stop loss criteria alert to be set as a percentage from the purchase price; not a previous closing price (or any other 'moving' price) since you have no reference point. This way you can 'see' the decline as it happens and be notified that the loss has crossed that percentage amount. This will avoid having to create multiple portfolios of the same stocks to be notified when a stock is down by 1%, 2%, 3%, etc...from purchase price. This is more accurate than your current stop loss criteria possibilities, in my opinion. Seems like it would be an…
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Provide best Contra ETF search in the new CC Sure Fire Success Strategies
I would like to see Contra ETFs and Leveraged Contra ETFs included in the backtesting setups for the 2014 Confirmed Call Sure Fire Success series. This would allow use in IRA accounts. My Backtest results using Leveraged Contra ETFs as a substitute for the Short strategies have yield approximately 3% improvements in % Gain, ARR, and DrawDn percentages.
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Need a Way to create search with MACD readings other than just crossover
Squeeze Formation: Attached is a screen shot of a chart from my Tradestation charting program, showing what is called the "Squeeze Formation." It is a bullish formation with the MACD and ADX where the MACD is on top and the ADX on the bottom. When these two diverge with MACD rising and ADX falling for 3 days, statistically, better than 80% of the time the stock has a significant bullish move within the next 3-5 days. The screen shot shows the DJ Index on 10/14/13 with the Green dot below the price bar indicating the formation as shown in the…
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Please add TRER
Up and coming rare earth miner
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Ability to manually adjust vertical scaling
Similarly to what you can already do horizontally, for those of us that like to draw Price Target lines above the existing price action or Stop Loss lines below, it would be great to be able to shrink the chart vertically to a Custom View to facilitate this. When in the Custom View, perhaps a translucent hot spot (button or symbol) could appear to return the chart to the current 'best fit' in one click.
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Drawing Object Hot Keys
For those of us who like to mark up a chart, it would be really helpful to assign the different drawing objects to a FUNCTION key. This would save a couple of mouse-clicks and having to choose the option from the drop-down menu every time you want to change the drawing object.
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How can I set alerts based on DEW/Up signals?
I want you to set a watchlist which includes a daily alerts about stocks that have a fresh DEW/up signals on graphs
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Creating my own "Derby" with Backtester
I am creating my own "Derby" with the backtester by setting up a standard template with a specified testing period then testing a set of popular searches with that template.
I am assembling the results into an Excel spreadsheet where I can run these backtests periodically (daily, weekly?) to see which of the selection of popular searches are doing the best - like the "Derby" module only under my control and with my own history.
This is very tedious and time consuming, however. It would be easy to program into the backtester module a feature that would permit user to…
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Supply alternate choice of including dividends paid in the backtester
Supply alternate choice of including dividends paid in the backtester
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Why is there no choice to use technical indicators as a stop in the backtester?
Add technical stops to the choices in the backtester
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